It sounds like in the end, he still really likes the core gameplay, but the community has been destroyed some unliked updates to the game, and he’s pretty sure that the devs are inflating the steam numbers through private matches with all bots. It’s wild how many hours that is, but he probably thinks the game is no longer worth it, amd has sour feelings towards the devs.
Lazer guided seed bombs seems almost reasonable. And the impact creator tills the soil!
The author of this article has a little website where he reviews indie games, its been a good read, and just reeks of a passionate writer. https://buried-treasure.org/
I love Cube! But don’t forget about Cube 2: Hypercube, or the (admittedly weaker) prequel, Cube: Zero. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cube_(film_series)
This comment is decrying it’s parent, but it doesn’t say anything to refute the points made. Energy use, intellectual property theft, and non-consensual porn seem like pretty decent things to be worried about.
My experience from an R1 university (research focused) is that most of the professors didn’t primarily want to teach, but instead to focus on research, while teaching was what they did to make their salary. They were usually happy to teach a few courses, and especially upper level courses focused on their area of expertise, but the main goal was getting funding to pursue research, and that usually comes from (or is distributed through) some public institution.
If anyone is more interested in the review than the article, here’s the text below. It seems like he was also making mods and patches for the game.
REVIEW: Important disclosure here: Prior to the release of BZ98R (and still to this day), I have been a player of the original game up until it’s final unofficial patch version 1.5.2.27 U1. This game is entirely based on this community patch. People who have played 1.5 are going to feel differently about the game than people who last played it 20 years ago (1.3, 1.31, 1.4…). The same goes for people who had never played BZ98 in any form prior to purchasing this game. This review involves numerous statements of objective fact but it was still written by someone who was playing 1.5 for years prior to the release of this game. I understand that the release of this game was the first many many people heard of BZ98 being alive but the truth is that it never ceased living - it’s good that it brought many back into the fold but it also basically killed the existing community surrounding it. When I heard that this was being made, I instantly experienced fear of what would happen to my beloved game… my fears were well-founded. What follows is my original review:
I’ve been intending to do this for a LONG time…
In nearly every way, BZ98R is inferior to the final version of BZ98 1.5 (1.5.2.27 U1) that came before it. If 1.5 had things like HUD scaling so I could play at high res and still be able to read text, I’d probably play it instead and advocate that others do so as well.
The graphics “upgrade” is hardly an upgrade when the most interesting feature of BZ1 was lost - destroyed ships flying into several pieces. There is a massive laundry list of SEVERE bugs that did not exist in 1.5 and I am not aware of any meaningful bug in 1.5 that was fixed by BZ98R.
If it weren’t for the fact that this game’s release AND Rebellion’s policies KILLED 1.5, I wouldn’t be likely to have played so many hours of this (I idle a lot, I swear!)
I’m going to stop right here for now. I mainly do not recommend this to people who care much about multiplayer.